Dramatically scales performance by allowing two graphics cards to be run in parallel.

PCI Express

Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

64-bit floating point texture filtering and blending

Based on the OpenEXR technology from Industrial Light & Magic (http://www.openexr.com/), NVIDIA’s 64-bit texture implementation sets new standards for image clarity and quality through floating point capabilities in filtering, texturing, and high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting.

Enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, like id Software¡¦s Doom III, that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects.Second-generation technology delivers more than 4x the shadow processing power over the previous generation

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Full-speed 32-bit color precision

Delivers increased image quality with no performance compromise.

NVIDIA® Intellisample™ 3.0 technology

The industry¡¦s fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds.Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern.

Advanced adaptive de-interlacing

Smoothes video and DVD playback on progressive displays.

Integrated HDTV encoder

Provides world-class HDTV-out functionality up to and including 1920x1080i resolutions.

NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology

Advanced technology provides the ultimate in viewing flexibility and control for multiple monitors.

OpenGL® 1.5 optimizations and support

Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL applications.

It comes with 128MB of DDR1 Memory running at 500Mhz. The core runs at 350Mhz. The memory modules on it are Samsung 4.0ns memory.

The 256MB version of this card does not perform any better in almost 99% of the situations you will be using the card in so we picked the 128MB instead. It will only show a performance difference when you are using high resolutions such as 1600×1200 with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotrpoic filtering turned on…. at which this budget card does not have the GPU horsepower for such intense settings… so that even the 256MB version will not make these settings playable.